PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christine Kenneally, Individual Animal Rescuer
6:58:06
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110 sec
Christine Kenneally, an individual animal rescuer, shares her personal journey into animal rescue and highlights the challenges faced in low-income Bronx neighborhoods. She emphasizes the need for education, better resources, and improved response to animal cruelty cases.
- Despite battling cancer, Kenneally has dedicated herself to rescuing cats, dogs, and birds in underserved areas
- She points out the lack of knowledge among residents about proper animal care and available resources
- Kenneally expresses frustration with the police department's inadequate response to animal cruelty cases
Christine Kenneally
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Hi there.
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My name is Christine Canalee.
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I am just an individual that cats started to find, and then I became a rescuer colony taken care of or whatever else comes up.
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5 and a half years ago, I received a very strong cancer diagnosis and went through major treatments and then metastasized and still going through.
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But I said, give me a way to get back for all my receiving.
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And the cats, dogs, birds, found me.
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I have been not able to work.
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Disability doesn't cover much.
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So I stay where I can.
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It's been in 3 low income Bronx neighborhoods where it seems that people really do not know what to do with the animals and wind up on the street.
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I would have come across a cruelty.
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The police department has not been very helpful.
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I'm not sure if I'm being heard.
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I guess they're busy.
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Okay.
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Like these wonderful people here, I am incredibly moved by the people that are coming here, and I'm incredibly moved and really hopeful by the interest and the questions being asked.
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And I'm please Police, you know what needs to be done.
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I don't know how to make these things happen.
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Education also is key.
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Where I'm living now is a horror story one day after the next of people not knowing what to do.
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And a cat that was bone being seen by the dog in the house biting it and leaving it for 4 days before bringing it someplace and then not knowing where to bring it.
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We can't have this.
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How do people know where to go?
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Thank you.
